Lessons from Bees

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Lessons from Bees

• January 11th, 2007
• Moulton Hall Ballroom

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Welcome

• Food
• Bathrooms
• Quiet Signal
• Scientific Inquiry
• Agenda

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Days Busy Bee Activities

• 900am Your LC Mission
• 945am Forager Scout Bees (work scout)
• 1045 am Waggle Time
• 1100am Panel Discussion
• Lunch
• 1 facilitator from each Learning Community is
  invited to join Regional Center Team for lunch in
  Conference room
• 1245pm Where we are . . . Where we are going
• 145pm Action Plan- Community Time
• 230pm Your LC gone public
• 400pm End of day Beginning of Action 2007
• OLN sponsored LCS need to submit Case Study Part
  I
• by January 25th.

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• September 26th, 2006

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Special Guests

• Sheryl Hansen, Director, Professional Development
  Programs, OLN
• Gail Peters, Regional Coordinator - Northern
  Ohio, OLN
• Heather ONeil, OLN Program Coordinator
• Denny Taylor, Regional Center Advisory Board

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Have you heard the buzz?
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Where are you as a Community?
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Personally Communally

• What is your project and the context it is
  undertaken?
• What is the end of the LC experience (what is
  your project) a.k.a. goals?
• What types of institutional support do you have?
• What support would you like?
• OLN Communities- what technology is being
  highlighted?

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Are we buzzing together?

• OLN Learning Communities Initiative goals
  (paraphrased by Jeffrey)
• Project that improves members abilities to learn
  about, gain proficiency with and use pedagogies
  and learning technologies. 
• Connect what we know about how people learn with
  the technologies and pedagogies that best support
  learner knowledge and proficiency.
• OLN LC-- Address a campus-endorsed collaborative
  project that focuses on specific learning about
  using technology and results in improved learning
  environments for students.  
• OLN Required assessment 
• A Community Case Study  Portraits of Practice
  Learning from Experience and
• An external assessment of the OLN Learning
  Community Initiative.
• Expand the reach of Learning Communities by
  involving a diversity of individuals,
  institutions, and partners.
• Provide effective support to learning communities
  through the Regional Center
• support communities of learners as they innovate,
  experiment, assess, embed, and share new and
  effective ways of teaching and learning
• Forums for Learning Communities to share success
  and projects
• Website
• Learning Communities Celebration, Friday, April
  20th
• June 15th Expo
• September Kick-Off

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Scout Bees
1 Scout Bee will fly counter clockwise from each
hive to share LC Mission Goals
Drinks
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Panel Presentation
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Where we are . . . Where we are going
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Action Planning
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Your Learning Community Gone Public

• 5 minutes to Share with large Group
• 2 min follow up

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Thank You for Coming

• Please fill out your evaluation, turn it in and
  the boot will be taken off your car
• If youd like to help plan next falls Kick-Off
  well be doing a wrap up of today and start
  planning for September at 420.
• Well look forward to seeing Part I of your
  Portrait of Practice by January 26th.
• See you in June at the Expo